Postcard from China, 6
Thursday afternoon we flew from Xi'an to Wenzhou, which is a southern port city that's not on most tourist itineraries. Indeed it does not even rate so much as a mention in the Rough Guide to China, but more
Thursday afternoon we flew from Xi'an to Wenzhou, which is a southern port city that's not on most tourist itineraries. Indeed it does not even rate so much as a mention in the Rough Guide to China, but more
We spent Wednesday in Xi'an, partly because we wanted a quieter day with less travelling than we have enjoyed over the past week. I'm also struggling with a head cold which seems a bit unfair, but nonetheless our time continues of more
So is it permitted to acknowledge that one is just a teensy bit underwhelmed by what is reputed to be one of the great sites - and sights - of the ancient world? We have been in Xi'an since Monday more
Since Saturday afternoon we have been in Pingyao, from where we leave on Monday morning to fly to Xi'an. Pingyao is quite wonderful and like nowhere else I have been before, as is the Yide Hotel where more
Friday afternoon, towards the end of the first week of our China holiday. We are in Datong in the north of the country, not so far from Beijing. In the late fifth century CE (around the time of the last more
I'm a little uncertain about whether to contribute this post. After all, I'm off on a family holiday and not travelling for Illuminations. Mostly when I have done Postcards from foreign climes before I have been filming or researching or more
Today I fly with my family to Beijing for a three week holiday (which I hope partly explains the lack of posts during this past week). I have no sense of how easy or difficult it will be to blog more
On Thursday we filmed a scene from John Lyly's 1584 play Sapho and Phao for the Shakespearean London Theatres project (ShaLT). That day I wrote Gentle ladies and gentlemen... John Lyly!!!, a post about the dramatist more
Back in 2009 we ran a blog post that was based on an article in the New York Times which claimed that the 'latest digital fad a chain-letter-cum-literary exercise called "25 Random Things About Me".' For a while it more
Yesterday was Karl Marx's birthday and today is a holiday that more or less coincides with one on 1 May that in some eighty countries celebrates International Workers' Day. On Friday last Illuminations said farewell, after more than a more